Job date: 2016-06-27
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Company : Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Country : Role : Faculty | Research Scientist
We are an expanding team of computational, clinical and research investigators working in cancer genomics with a focus in blood and childhood cancers. Our mission is to establish a fully integrated research program that coordinates basic scientific discovery, early-phase clinical trials, and drug development. As part of the center’s clinical and research investigations we are generating a wealth of genomic annotation data. To support and inform both ongoing and future research in cancer, we are building end-to-end infrastructure for large-scale data analysis, storage and mining that utilises and further develops state of the art computational tools.
Working together with members in the group, the Bioinformatics Data Scientist will be involved in the analysis of high-throughput cancer genomics data. As part of their role the Bioinformatics data scientist will support end-to-end processing using existing tools as well as development of automated solutions for data mining, and analytics. The bioinformatics data scientist will be involved in the annotation of genome profiling data, generate and evaluate standardized quality control metrics and work alongside research and clinical colleagues to deliver answers and drive cutting edge research in cancer genomics with a focus in leukemia and childhood cancers.
Please send your application to PapaemmanuilLabMSK[AT]gmail.comLab Website: https://www.mskcc.org/research-areas/labs/elli-papaemmanuil
Required Qualifications :
Masters in Biostatistics or bioinformatics – or related quantitative discipline.Experience in working with genome profiling data to include DNA NGS data, RNA- Seq and / or epigenetic platforms (CHIP-Seq, MBD-Seq, ATAC-seq, DNAse-seq or related platforms).Experience with next-generation analysis toolkits (PICARD, GATK, samtools, MACS, STAR, etc.)Advanced skills in Perl or PythonDesirable experience:
R or R shiny applicationsExperience in Bioinformatics software developmentIT process management, version control, and use case testingExperience with parallelized computingAlternative career paths may be considered for candidates with work experience or equivalent qualifications.Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to enhancing the diversity of its faculty and staff. Women and applicants from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
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